The Quest [$7.99] is the mobile RPG gift that just keeps on giving, and 2016 has been a particularly great year for its fans. We started off the year with the first new expansion in quite some time, the Celtic-flavored Cursed Stone [$2.99]. All the iPad owners who had been pining for a native version of The Quest got their wish in late July with the release of The Quest HD [$7.99], which developers Redshift kindly made available as a universal app scant weeks later. In mid-September, an HD version of The Quest's first expansion, Islands of Ice and Fire [$4.99], was released. Late October saw the long-awaited release of an Android version of The Quest, and it looks like we're closing out the year with yet another expansion to the original version of The Quest from Zarista Games. Just to try and head off some confusion at the pass, let's be clear here: The Quest and The Quest HD are separate apps running on different engines with their own assets. Nearly all of the available expansions for The Quest have been developed by Zarista Games using a special creation tool that is not compatible with The Quest HD. Thus, this new expansion will only work with the original, non-HD flavor of The Quest. Clear as mud!

Okay, with that out of the way, let's get into the meat. The new expansion is called Dragon Jade [$2.99], and its story is going to be a little familiar for anyone who has read or heard of the classic Chinese story Journey to the West. The setting is Ancient China. You've b...